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Sunday, 29 March 2015

Here is an interesting fact about the wingless insects, fleas. According to a source, they are able to jump 150 times and another source 110 times their hight. They can jump approximately 18cm (7inches) vertically and 33cm (13inches) horizontally. If compared to humans, it is equivalent of a 180cm tall human being jumping about two football fields high!

Thursday, 26 March 2015

I have been working on a brand new project, a new blog, for a while and it is now ready to go public (Well, mostly. There is still some fine tuning to do but it will happen in time). The new blog is very different to this blog here. It is called ENGLISH IN COMFORT and aims to teach English to the speakers of Turkish language using comparisons of both languages, explanations, examples, work sheets, songs, research results and everything else that you can imagine that helps in learning/teaching a new language. You can click here to have a look it and if relevant, follow to be posted on a regular basis. DUYURU:Yepyeni bir blog ile yine karşınızdayım. Ancak, yeni blogum burada olandan çok daha farklı bir konuda ve Türkce okur-yazarlara hitap ediyor. ENGLISH IN COMFORT adını verdiğim bu yeni blogda, çogunlukla Türkçe dilini kullanarak İngilizce öğretiyor olacağım. Dilin kuralları, Türkçe ve İngilizce dil yapısının anlamayı kolaylaştıracak karşılaştırmaları, örnekler, açıklamalar, alıştırmalar, kendiniz için ya da İngilizce'yi çocuğunuza öğretebilmeniz için gereken her türlü paylaşımda bulunuyor olacağım. Buraya tıklayarak yeni blogumu ziyaret edebilir ve hatta takibe alabilirsiniz.

(Harmony Day: This year on the 21st of March, 2015, Australia will be celebrating the 15th Harmony Day. It is a day that reminds and celebrates diversity, respect and inclusiveness... Harmony Day coincides with the United Nation's International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.)

While
bathroom is a really important part of your home, it doesn’t mean that it needs
to be big in order to be beautiful and functional. Truth be told, small
bathroom leaves a lot to be desired from this space, but if you make an effort
to make it functional and compact, you can make it look bigger than it is and
you can really make up for its lack of size. At least, visually, your bathroom
can be more spacious, but you just need to think through its design a little bit.
Here are some of the ways you can do it and some of the ideas to make the most
of the small bathroom place.

Small
space usually seems even smaller if you allow for the furniture and details to
come into your way and break it into areas. This happens when you have a lot of
stuff that you need in that space and little space to store it. Also, if you
cannot move around freely without bumping something over, the space is
dysfunctional and seems pretty small and cramped up. What owners of small
bathrooms usually forget is that they can use the vertical space as well. Be
creative about it and use those walls to
make the storage space for all the things that will
free up the space around you.

Tie the Room Together

When you
tie the room together you achieve the effect of unity of the space which makes
it seem like it is one big space rather than several areas in one. You can
achieve this by tiling. Use the same tiles for the floors and then use them for
the lower part of the walls and tile over the bathtub and all the things you
can up until the certain level. Visually, this will make the space look much
bigger.

Furniture That Goes with the Space

In order
to make sure that the space is properly used up, you will need some furniture
that will go with the space and that will take up as little space as
possible. This means that some of it may even be custom made to fit into the
corners and don’t interrupt the line of the space so that it blends in with the
walls. This will make the space look more opened up and uninterrupted, so it
will appear to be bigger.

A much
better solution for the small bathroom, than a bathtub, is a walk in shower or
even the wet bathroom. Walk in shower has no obvious separating from the rest
of the room so it doesn’t shrink it up. Wet bathroom makes it even easier to
save space, but it cancels out the possibility to freely use walls for storage
as the stuff might get wet. However, this can be taken care of with careful
choice of storage shelves. Toilets that are perfect for small bathrooms are
built in toilets that have the free space beneath them. Sinks as well. However,
this means that you will have to call the plumber for every
case of blocked drains as it
will be difficult for you to take care of it.

Clutter

All the
things you do to make the bathroom more spacious will be in vain if you clutter
it up with unnecessary details. Small bathroom needs to be filled only with the
necessities and all the things like empty bottles, too much details, ornaments
and home chemistry should not be stored there. In reality, they will not take
up too much space, but visually, it will seem like they do. Entire side of the
bathroom where these things are stored will look used up and this automatically
shrinks the entire space.

These
are just some of the things that you can do to make your bathroom space look
bigger than it already is. Giving it a lot of light and making sure that the
colors used in it are bright and light, will definitely make it look larger.
Also, when it comes to colors, one wall can be painted or tiled in a deep blue
shade as it will add another dimension to the entire space.